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2021–16328 Filed 7–29–21; 8:45 Am] SIP Is a Comprehensive Written Plan, No Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 144 / Friday, July 30, 2021 / Notices 41145 SMALL BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION Percent United States Small Business Administration. [Disaster Declaration #17052 and #17053; Non-Profit Organizations with- Thomas G. Morris, Illinois Disaster Number IL–00065] out Credit Available Else- Acting Associate Administrator, Director, where ..................................... 2.000 Administrative Declaration of a Office of Liquidation, Office of Investment and Innovation. Disaster for the State of Illinois The number assigned to this disaster [FR Doc. 2021–16266 Filed 7–29–21; 8:45 am] AGENCY: U.S. Small Business for physical damage is 17052 6 and for BILLING CODE P Administration. economic injury is 17053 0. ACTION: Notice. The State which received an EIDL SURFACE TRANSPORTATION BOARD SUMMARY: This is a notice of an Declaration # is Illinois. Administrative declaration of a disaster (Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance [Docket No. FD 36472] Number 59008) for the State of Illinois dated 07/26/ CSX Corporation and CSX 2021. Isabella Guzman, Transportation, Inc., et al.—Control Incident: Flooding. Administrator. and Merger—Pan Am Systems, Inc., Incident Period: 06/25/2021 through [FR Doc. 2021–16264 Filed 7–29–21; 8:45 am] Pan Am Railways, Inc., Boston and 06/27/2021. Maine Corporation, Maine Central DATES: Issued on 07/26/2021. BILLING CODE 8026–03–P Railroad Company, Northern Railroad, Physical Loan Application Deadline Pan Am Southern LLC, Portland Date: 09/24/2021. SMALL BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION Terminal Company, Springfield Economic Injury (EIDL) Loan Terminal Railway Company, Stony Application Deadline Date: 04/26/2022. Brook Railroad Company, and Vermont [License No. 05/05–0335] ADDRESSES: Submit completed loan & Massachusetts Railroad Company applications to: U.S. Small Business Serra Capital (SBIC) III, L.P.; Conflicts AGENCY: Surface Transportation Board. Administration, Processing and of Interest Exemption ACTION: Decision No. 4 in STB Finance Disbursement Center, 14925 Kingsport Docket No. 36472; Notice of Acceptance Road, Fort Worth, TX 76155. Notice is hereby given that Serra of Application and Related Filings; FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: A. Capital (SBIC) III, L.P., 2021 South First Issuance of Procedural Schedule. Escobar, Office of Disaster Assistance, Street, Suite 206, Champaign, IL 61821, SUMMARY: U.S. Small Business Administration, a Federal Licensee under the Small The Surface Transportation Board (Board) is accepting for 409 3rd Street SW, Suite 6050, Business Investment Act of 1958, as consideration the revised application Washington, DC 20416, (202) 205–6734. amended (‘‘the Act’’), in connection SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Notice is filed on July 1, 2021, by CSX with the financing of a small business Corporation (CSXC), CSX hereby given that as a result of the concern, has sought an exemption under Administrator’s disaster declaration, Transportation Inc. (CSXT), 747 Merger Section 312 of the Act and Section Sub 2, Inc. (747 Merger Sub 2), Pan Am applications for disaster loans may be 107.730, Financings which Constitute filed at the address listed above or other Systems, Inc. (Systems), Pan Am Conflicts of Interest of the Small Railways, Inc. (PAR), Boston and Maine locally announced locations. Business Administration (‘‘SBA’’) Rules The following areas have been Corporation (Boston & Maine), Maine and Regulations (13 CFR 107.730). Serra determined to be adversely affected by Central Railroad Company (Maine Capital (SBIC) III, L.P. is seeking a the disaster: Central), Northern Railroad (Northern), written exemption from SBA for a Portland Terminal Company (Portland Primary Counties: McLean. proposed financing to ConsortiEX, Inc., Terminal), Springfield Terminal Contiguous Counties: 1000 N Water Street, Suite 950, Railway Company (Springfield Illinois: Champaign, De Witt, Ford, Milwaukee, WI 53202. Terminal), Stony Brook Railroad Livingston, Logan, Piatt, Tazewell, The financing is brought within the Company (Stony Brook), and Vermont & Woodford. Massachusetts Railroad Company purview of § 107.730(a) of the The Interest Rates are: (V&M) (collectively, Applicants). The Regulations because ConsortiEX, Inc. is application will be referred to as the an Associate of Serra Capital (SBIC) III, Percent Revised Application. The Revised L.P. because Associate Serra Capital III, Application seeks Board approval under For Physical Damage: L.P. owns a greater than ten percent 49 U.S.C. 11321–26 for: CSXC, CSXT, Homeowners with Credit Avail- interest in ConsortiEX, Inc., therefore able Elsewhere ...................... 3.250 and 747 Merger Sub 2 to control the this transaction is considered Financing seven railroads controlled by Systems Homeowners without Credit which constitute conflicts of interest Available Elsewhere .............. 1.625 and PAR, and CSXT to merge six of the Businesses with Credit Avail- requiring SBA’s prior written seven railroads into CSXT. This able Elsewhere ...................... 5.760 exemption. proposal is referred to as the Merger Businesses without Credit Notice is hereby given that any Transaction. In addition to the Revised Available Elsewhere .............. 2.880 interested person may submit written Application, there are several filings for Non-Profit Organizations with transactions related to the Merger Credit Available Elsewhere ... 2.000 comments on this transaction within fifteen days of the date of this Transaction, including: Four notices of Non-Profit Organizations with- exemption for Norfolk Southern out Credit Available Else- publication to the Associate where ..................................... 2.000 Administrator, Office of Investment and Railway Company (NSR) to acquire For Economic Injury: Innovation, U.S. Small Business trackage rights over existing lines Businesses & Small Agricultural Administration, 409 Third Street SW owned by four separate railroads; a petition for exemption to allow Cooperatives without Credit Washington, DC 20416. Available Elsewhere .............. 2.880 Pittsburg & Shawmut Railroad, LLC d/ VerDate Sep<11>2014 17:24 Jul 29, 2021 Jkt 253001 PO 00000 Frm 00144 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 E:\FR\FM\30JYN1.SGM 30JYN1 lotter on DSK11XQN23PROD with NOTICES1 41146 Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 144 / Friday, July 30, 2021 / Notices b/a Berkshire & Eastern Railroad (B&E), due by September 28, 2021. Responses Railroads’ representative, Robert B. to replace Springfield Terminal as the to comments, protests, requests for Culliford, Pan Am Systems, Inc., 1700 operator of Pan Am Southern LLC conditions, and other opposition— Iron Horse Park, North Billerica, MA (PAS); and a notice of exemption to including responses to DOJ and USDOT 01862; and (5) any other person allow SMS Rail Lines of New York, LLC filings—are due by October 18, 2021. designated as a Party of Record on the (SMS) to discontinue service and Responses to responsive applications, service list. terminate its lease of a rail line known including inconsistent applications, are FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: as the Voorheesville Running Track. also due by October 18, 2021. Rebuttal Amy Ziehm at (202) 245–0391. These transactions will be referred to as in support of the Revised Application Assistance for the hearing impaired is the Related Transactions. This decision and Related Transactions is also due by available through the Federal Relay embraces the following dockets: Norfolk October 18, 2021. Rebuttals in support Service at (800) 877–8339. Southern Railway—Trackage Rights of responsive applications, requests for SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On Exemption—CSX Transportation, Inc., conditions, and other opposition must February 25, 2021, Applicants Docket No. FD 36472 (Sub-No. 1); be filed by November 17, 2021. Final submitted an application for the Norfolk Southern Railway—Trackage briefs will be due by January 3, 2022. If proposed Merger Transaction and Rights Exemption—Providence & a public hearing or oral argument is requested that the Board treat the Worcester Railroad, Docket No. FD held, it will be held between the filing transaction as a ‘‘minor’’ transaction. In 36472 (Sub-No. 2); Norfolk Southern of rebuttals and final briefs on a date to Decision No. 1, served and published in Railway—Trackage Rights Exemption— be determined by the Board. The Board the Federal Register (86 FR 16,009) on Boston & Maine Corp., Docket No. FD will issue its final decision by April 1, March 25, 2021, the Board found the 36472 (Sub-No. 3); Norfolk Southern 2022, and the decision will become proposed transaction should be Railway—Trackage Rights Exemption— effective on May 1, 2022. classified as a ‘‘significant’’ transaction Pan Am Southern LLC, Docket No. FD Environmental Review. As discussed under 49 U.S.C. 11325 and 49 CFR 36472 (Sub-No. 4); Pittsburg & Shawmut below, CSXT is directed to file 1180.2(b), which must meet different Railroad—Operation Exemption—Pan supplemental environmental procedural and informational Am Southern LLC, Docket No. FD 36472 information, which must be filed by requirements, and that Applicants’ (Sub-No. 5); SMS Rail Lines of New August 19, 2021 (though CSXT may submission therefore could not be York, LLC—Discontinuance request an extension). Absent any treated as an application. However, in Exemption—in Albany County, N.Y., extensions, environmental comments that same decision, the Board Docket No. AB 1312X. The Board finds must be filed by September 17, 2021, determined that it would consider the that the Revised Application meets the addressed to the
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